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Ep187. ft. Esther Vazquez - The Brain, the heart and the system (Part 1)
What if the biggest obstacle to learning… isn’t the student but the system itself?
In Part 1 of this powerful conversation, Mike sits down with renowned educator and teacher trainer Esther Vazquez to confront one of the most uncomfortable truths in modern education: our classrooms were never designed for every brain.
Drawing from neuroscience, classroom experience, and years of teacher training, Esther exposes the deep mismatch between how the brain actually learns and how schools still teach.
They explore:
• Why neurodiversity is not the exception — but the norm
• The dangerous myth of…
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